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Have you ever considered how blind people understand our world? Since blind people can only rely on their sense of touch, hearing and smell, much of the information that people who can see view optically with our eyes, the blind must "see" in a tactile manner, using their hands to touch.

By scanning of surfaces with their fingertips, "plastic pictures" result in the minds of a blind person - that is, the information that they receive by touching lets the object appear in their mind's eye.

The writing which we can read with our eyes cannot be seen by blind people. For a long time in the past, the blind were isolated and always relied on others for help. Teaching material was imparted acoustically, and many projects failed which aimed to teach the blind the letters of the alphabet through relief-like figures.

Tools for blind people, like this typewriter, were especially created so that they could more easily use their dot writing. Books printed in Braille are not just difficult and expensive, the resulting books are much bigger and heavier than their counterparts in print too. Print is the term that blind people use for the writing system of sighted people.

By using an interactive learning method you will very quickly learn the respective alphabet of the blind. To reinforce what you've learned, there are additional exercise pages and the alphabet is available as a graphic for download.


Note:
The emphasis of the word 'Fa-koo'
is on the last syllable!